I realized I haven't really updated on my personal life here on dA for a while. Not sure why...i guess mostly it's because I've taken to updating my life on tumblr instead and it feels weird to update the same thing in two different places .

So anyways, RL stuff first - I got a new job ~ Well, a job offer, the job itself doesn't start until July, but I'm going to be working at Titmouse Inc (they did Motorcity, and the opening for the first season of Avatar...I think those are the two prominent ones...). I was assigned to be a background artist working on Turbo FAST season 2, which is pretty exciting because seasons 1 got nominated for an Emmys.

So I'll be moving to Vancouver Canada . Any Vancouver peeps here that might be able to give me a heads up as to where i should avoid renting a place, etc? .

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thanks so much to psoty for suggesting it, and TehAngelsCry for the DD feature ٩(●˙▿˙●)۶…⋆ฺ

And thanks to Heidi, I now have a sub again +__+~ Thanks so much >3<~ I'll try to update on dA more this year~

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Another thing is I finnnnally got a portfolio website. geeez that took really long to set up even though technically it was easy, I went through a LOT of different site-builders x_x;;. I finally decided to go with Weebly because it was simple and looked pretty sleek. I guess technically I don't need it for another year though, since I have my permanent-for-a-year job

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First, thank you guys so much for the birthday wishes, points and cakes! I wish I could reply to every single person but I only have enough time to read everyone's messages >3< but thank you guys lots So last year, I posted a guide on Tumblr that detailed how I did my animated short-film step-by-step, and the problem is that I have a lot of moving GIF samples, and so I kind of want to re-organize it and post it for dA folks who might not have tumblr... I've seen a lot of tutorials on how to do a flip-page flash, but none of them show me how I can include small animated gifs without buggering it up. I'm guessing I can load it into flash and turn it into a symbol but I struggled with it and kind of gave up last year @_@;;;. Here's the actual tutorial qinni.tumblr.com/post/46871873… , but I want to turn it into a flash-file, if that makes sense?

If anyone could help, I'd be extremely grateful~ I kind of gave up on it last year so I'd have to start from scratch again but yeah, anything would help xD;; even links to tutorials you think might help or what you googled to find certain tutorials, seriously xD;;;. I have Flash CS5, and use actionscript 3, i think...? xD;;

edit:...no one can help? "orz.....okay....

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Oh, last thing; and I've been asked this many many times so here's my facebook: facebook.com/qing.han.artthis is my personal facebook though, and I don't feel comfortable enough for an "official artist" facebook kind of thing, but it's not really open for friends (unless you're friends with someone who's a friend, i think that's my setting...? xD;; ), only followers ~ but yeah, i post a lot of process stuff on there publicly

oh my god I'm so sorry. I've been so busy with moving (i didn't know my family had so much shit) and other stuff I just haven't logged onto dA for a while.

"orz.

But I didn't realize I'm now a Senior Member?? wowowow I don't even know who gave that to me, but thank you so much~~ i know it's just a title, but I remember as a kid first on dA I was like "Seniors are so speciallll i want oneeee" xDDDD. And now I'm old and apparently senior enough to be Senior

yay~!

Uh, here's something I've been working on. Actually, this thing was done back in November though xD;;;.

um, I'll still be busy for a while preparing my portfolio stuff, so I can't guarantee I'll be on dA, but I will be on Tumblr because that's where I post WIPs (and complain about stuff, talk about stuff i don't think making a journal on dA is appropriate for cause i tend to delete my lil rants xD;; ). Does anyone want me to post my WIPs here too? I remember quite a few people didn't want that, so I ended up not posting most of my WIPs xD;;;.

Okay, first, I have to apologize for not being on for, like, two months. I was in China and I kind of went crazy lying around doing nothing.......ha....haha.....(and my bro says he's a witness lol).

second, I'd like to apologize for the 54+ notes in my inbox (and over 90 notes in my tumblr inbox. so...yeah). whenever I see a number that's higher than 10, i get this irrational fear and don't want to touch any of it (i still have over 1000 unread emails from the year i ditched it >.>;; ). So yes, sorry, I'll get to them eventually slowly, but....it's just really time-consuming >.<;;

Third(ly?), I'm sorry for the hiatus on the watcher's feature again @__@;; oh my god I feel the worst about that. I let my sub run out without finishing the features, so I feel extremely terrible for wasting ArtofAshes's subscription >_<;;~! sorry!! >_<;;

edit:I'm extremely grateful to logeg for giving me another sub ^3^ <3~ I still feel extremely guilty though oh god and now it probably seems like i was begging for a subscription or something..... oh well

Lastly, thanks so much to deshrubber for the Daily Deviation~!! WHoooot!! yayy!! ;3;~!! i'm so happy >.<~!!

Also, i'm sorry for spending more time on tumblr. Seriously, i spend almost all my time on tumblr and it has all my sketches and stuff v_v;;;~. but I do post bigger and more detailed versions of final drawings on dA though xD;;~

it's about your favourite character with your favourite food. It can be your own character or one on T.V. so it sounds pretty fun, right?

Please take a look, there are some awesome peeps here

note: Faving this journal might help with your exposure but it's solely up to your fellow deviants ~

It takes me a while to put these together and it's a bit of a tedious process, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys!

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week or bi-weekly as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take a few months, so please be patient!

First I just wana say thanks so much to for the sub and dA's new journal-writing beta which makes featuring thumbnails so much, SO MUCH, easier and faster for me. Honestly thanks so much.

Please take a look, there are some awesome peeps here

note: Faving this journal might help with your exposure but it's solely up to your fellow deviants ~

It takes me a while to put these together and it's a bit of a tedious process, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys!

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week or bi-weekly as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take a few months, so please be patient!

Before anything else, i'd like to ask peeps without a subscription/premium membership a question: can you guys still post thumbs without a sub? Cause the last time I didn't have a sub, the journal was literally featureless. since I want to save the points people donated for giveaways during Christmas (I failed to do one last year because i was in China I had a really limited access to internet at the time), I'm hoping dA still have thumbnails for sub-less people so I can keep doing this even when mine run out

I'm keeping the title this way

note: Faving this journal might help with your exposure but it's solely up to your fellow deviants ~

It takes me a while to put these together and it's a bit of a tedious process, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys!

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week or bi-weekly as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take a few months, so please be patient!

note: Faving this journal might help with your exposure but it's solely up to your fellow deviants ~

It takes me a while to put these together, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys!

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!

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I should be updating this once a week either friday or saturday : ). or every other week. again, I implore you to be patient if you're further down the list! thanks!

ps. there are a few people who didn't read the rules carefully and didn't answer me when I reminded them, so they're not up here. sorry guys, fair's fair; if you can't be bothered to answer me or read the rules carefully, what are the chances you'll go through everyone else's artwork? if you fixed your mistake I will feature it in the next feature .

Edit: Please read through the rules carefully~~ I know a bunch of you aren't >.O~!

Edit 2: I didn't realize a lot of people don't know this until now, but Thumbnails do not work in comments!.

And again, i emphasis people should read each rule; there are only 6, and it's even numbered! it's not that hard to not skim it! thanks!

First, thanks so much everyone who commented with birthday wishes~! there were like...425 of you guys and I actually read all of them, though I couldn't really reply to everyone >.<;;~ thanks lots for the cakes, bday points and the birthday wishes . it's been a while since I've had real cake (cause i usually just eat noodles for my birthday; me and my asian ways), so digital ones are great xD~ thanks

you guys are so sweet and I would like to return the love and resume doing watchers feature again .

I'm going to have to start over though becaues it's been a while since I last did them (really sorry >_<;; I have reasons but I don't want to make excuses; I'm sorry for stopping them for a while).

ps. yay new icon

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Okay, so you simply have to comment here with a link your favourite work of your own. It's okay if you've submitted to the last one since I'm starting all over again.

Simple rules to abide by:1. Please only comment once. per person.2. Please comment with a link to one artwork that is yours. I cannot take other people's artwork, especially if they don't watch me, because it wouldn't make sense that I would add their work to my folder of "watcher's feature" if they didn't watch me. 3. Please be patient; I started these last time when i was on summer break, but I have school now so the features might become a bi-weekly thing rather than weekly. 4. You must be watching me. I'll be able to tell. ;D

5. the unspoken rule of Please look at your fellow deviants' work when it comes out because it'll make this worthwhile. Share the love! 6. oh, and the last rule is to give me a random fact; like a little "did you know? there are at least 10 gems more rare than diamonds on earth.", just so I know you've read this and not just skimmed it ~ plus I think it'll be more fun to read through .

How is this going to work from my end? Well, I'll be clicking through each of your links and adding them to a folder in my favourites called "Watcher's Feature 2" (so you don't have to thank me for adding you to my favs xD; ), and every week, or every other week, I'll be featuring 50 deviations, in order of comment xD. There might be a chance that I might miss you, since there are so many people and I'm only one person who's not a machine but a person, so I apologize beforehand if I missed your piece or something. @__@;

did you know?Stinky tofu is actually delicious and it reminds me of cheese. You can probably get most of you daily protein by eating bugs because they contain a lot of protein i dunno. something inane and random's okay too. just some fact xD.

Edit: alright, thanks guys so much for the great feedback . we're slowly working our way through your critique-requests. Critique submission is closed for the moment because there are so many requests coming at once and there's only like...9 of us critiquing and one of them is a writer. keep following us though, cause I'm sure as we finish critiquing them, we'll open it up again

This is a blog where a bunch of artists will be critiquing those who submit their work/projects in, so if you want your work critiqued, go on that blog : D

I'll be critiquing on it too ~~ Well, mostly the ones needing human anatomy help and asking for red-lining xDD;~ but there's peeps who can help with animals, composition, colours and stuff too .

please note that it might take a bit of time for all of us to get through and critique it thoroughly, especially since we're all pretty busy people as well .

ps. this isn't my tumblr, this is just a critique blog I help out with. My tumblr is this: qinni.tumblr.com

EDIT/PS: This is from the blog founder; and I know it's probably some of my watchers who are doing this and aren't reading the submission guidelines properly ~

"PLEASE READSubmissions that do not follow the submission guideline formula (picture/link to story and what you want help with), WILL NOT be processed! We have been getting several projects lately that lack a description of what you want us to do. A link to your project does not qualify as a submission. You MUST read our guidelines and provide an accurate description of what you want us to do (e.g Redline, paint over, general critique, written response…) If you believe that you did not adhere to our rules please resubmit your project WITH an explanation!

and I just want to add that it'll also make stuff a lot easier for us if you actually uploaded your image somewhere rather than us having to go to your link on dA, save it, and then upload it for you, as well as make all the critiques as well. thanks~!

This is a sort of guide on canvas sizes, inches, dpi and pixel x pixels.

when it came to canvas sizes, I always kind of assumed that inches belonged with dpi and pixels were just pixels and that everyone knew that; but i read a whole bunch of comments on a tumblr blog where someone asked about canvas sizes, and SO MANY people were replying with things such as, "4000x4000 px at 300 dpi" or "2000x2000 px at 200dpi".

and I guess not everyone quite understands what dpi's really used for xD.

DPI = Dots per Inch. It means how many dots will be printed per inch.

DPI is actually used for printing purposes. It shows the printer how much pixels to print per inch, literally. A common printer (at home or even at a lot of printing stores) at best prints at 150dpi most of the time actually; there are some super duper great printers that can print REALLY fine that can go up to ...apparently a lot more xD; #dpi, so that's why everyone usually suggests saving your project at 300dpi; most printers are fine with 300dpi, because anything above that is a little overkilling it. There are some super-fine printers though that can print up to maybe 600dpi, but those are not really that common. alright, so apparently it's pretty common ~ but I've never found myself needing to go above 300dpi; stuff in 150dpi works well for me too, actually >_>;;~ Unless, of course, you're doing extremely high-quality fine-art prints that can sell up to $30-$60 a piece, because really high-quality prints (that requires 600+dpi) costs a lot to print in the first place, so I won't suggest this for anime/comic conventions ~

so say I have a canvas at 5400 x 3600px, it literally means that I have a canvas that can be printed on a 18 x 12 inch paper at 300 dpi. If I have a 5400 x 3600px canvas at 200dpi, that pixels of the canvas don't change, but the inches on the physical paper can change to 27x18 inches when it comes to printing it. The canvas pixels aren't going to change just because you have it at 200dpi, so putting 200dpi, 300dpi or even 800dpi, it isn't going to make a difference digital canvas-wise. If you say something like "5400 x 3600px at 300 dpi", it's the same as saying "5400 x 3600px at 18 x 12 inches.". See how they don't mix?

Either put down how big it is in pixels (because you don't REALLY need the 300dpi if you're not printing it out), or if you have an intention of printing it out, do it in inches (or cm, if that's what you're used to) with a dpi attached.

Even photoshop makes it clear - The pixels are in the "Pixel-dimention" section, and the inches/cm/mm/etc and dpi is under the "Document-size" section.

TL;DR: Canvas inches and dpis are for physical prints only; Pixels are digital, so they don't mix with dpis or inches, etc. Digital and physical don't mix in a way that would make sense. Please don't say "2000 x 2000px at 300dpi"~ @_@;

I hope I made sense and cleared up some misconceptions about dpi and canvas sizes . ….and i hope i didn't make a mistake here hahaha;;;.

sorry if i sounded like a know-it-all v_v;; i guess I found a new pet-peeve D;~…

damn, i wrote a lot; sorry, bad habit D:~!

edit: if you're a math-kindda person, you can also look at this mathamatically:

It takes me a while to put these together, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys! Faving this journal might help

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!

Thanks for looking . If you want to be featured, there should be an older journal that will show you the way (if you want to be featured, the first step is to find that journal~! :3. it's a test. of my laziness. *Edit* nevermind, hold that thought - I'll probably be doing another journal about this, since my old journal now has over 1500+ comments, most of them made months ago, so I'm probably going to start this over again for the new journal features, since you guys probably have new work you'd wanna show off xD; (and it's hard to sift through all those comments D; )

You also have to be one of my watchers to be featured (thus the title xD)Please show some support for your fellow artist~!

oh my god, I actually didn't expect to win anything, really @__@;;~ I'd already given up in my heard to be honest, hahaha;; because, well, there's another user who has a lot of friends xD;;~ but oh my god, you guys are so awesome for helping ;A;~!!

Seriously, i cannot thank everyone enough.

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eeep. thanks everyone so so so freaking much, i can't believe so many people took the time to sign-up and vote for me ;A;~ <3 <3

edit: There's only a few days left, so if you could help at all, i'd be so grateful!

by the way, did i mention I'm one of the finalists? yay. but I really doubt I'll win anything though, since these north-american contests are usually more swayed towards a north-american style normally. >_<;;

The prize is $1000 per catagory winner, plus another grand for the "audience favourite". my tuitions here as a visa student is really expensive, and since my parents don't have any income at the moment (my dad just lost his job -_-;, I'd rather not be too much of a burden on them. The problem is I can't really do conventions anymore while I'm in China, and the school workload is actually pretty intense, so if you guys can help at all, I'd be so so greatful, seriously.

--------------I don't usually ask for help like this, but I've decided to be a little shameless and beg;

please please help me by voting for me for Film Skillet's animation contest. I don't know how much of a shot I have here, but there's an "audience favourite"...but you do need to sign up to vote though, so i don't know how many of you will bother to do that @__@;;~

sorry, anyways:

If you like my film enough to vote for it and have the time to sign up or already have an account, please vote for it here: www.filmskillet.com/films/943-…

Edit:...I didn't even realize I got a DD until now! @__@;;;;. Thanks so much for the feature

So so so so sorry guys ;A;~ I completely completely forgot about dA for the past few months and....well, it's been a little tough and the holidays didn't feel like a holiday here in China because Chinese people here don't really celebrate christmas (my roommates didn't even know when christmas was!!! D:< ), so I also of course completely forgot to do my christmas giveaway OH NO. D:!! >A<;....Sorry, actually, what I did on Christmas was phoning a dozen different people about how to apply to the masters program that i want to get into properly and generally running around haggard. I still have a personal statement to write, a few letters of recommendations to get from professors, and a few tests I have to do before I can rest easy again D;.

I know there are people who noted me about stuff, but I have like around 70 notes to go through at this moment and a lot of stuff to go through, so please be patient .

I'm actually still very busy at the moment, and I'm currently applying to a masters program in Fine Arts here. I don't know if you guys want to see any of my life-drawings, as that's ALL I've been doing the last few months; oil painting life drawings....

I'll try to post more regularly if you guys don't mind that. but if you do, i can keep them to myself .

ps. I'm getting really good at drawing feet these days, so I'll probably drop a feet tutorial within a few months time, since I feel confident enough to pull it off now xD.

again, thanks guy so much for voting me into the top 100 so i could have a shot at this! v.v

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ps. I'm sorry I haven't been updating much or have been doing my watchers feature. I've just been really busy finishing up some freelance work and getting ready to go back to China to study oil painting for a year xD;~ So expect a lot of oil paintings in your updates in the future >.<~~!

It takes me a while to put these together, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys! Faving this journal might help

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!

update: So....I contacted my relatives and my uncle is in the police force..he told me that unless I registered a copyright with the picture that was stolen before it was stolen, I would have a case in court. or else there would be nothing i could do and I would lose for sure if i tried to take it to court hahaha.....plus he said that this happens everywhere in China and if I didn't register a copyright to it in China, Chinese courts basically consider it public property and anyone would be able to use it....

well, plus i didn't even put a watermark on that artwork because it was for a contest and the contest rules didn't allow any sort of signatures......=_=;;;; "orz

tl;dr: there's nothing I can do so.....yup. I'm...actually just really sad more than anything else right now. v_v;;;. oh well. thanks anyways for your support, everyone...

Edit: aw, thanks so much guys for the support *sob*. I know there isn't actually much I can do at the moment. I do have relatives in China who may or may not help me. I won't know until I ask but i can't until tonight cause, well, day and night is exactly opposite from here. but anyways, thanks guys >A<;;~~

I know some of you guys told me that putting stuff on the internet will always have negative effects, and while I agree, I still want to share my art even at the cost of something like this : ). It might sound a little shallow, but sharing my art is a pretty important part to me as well as the drawing process itself. Actually, if I hadn't had this amount of watchers/favs/good stats on dA, my mom probably wouldn't have let me go into art, hahaha (not to show off, but i was pretty good at the violin and almost went pro...but i never liked it as much as I love art; but i've been forced to play the violin since i was 3 y/o ).

That said, I'll see what I can do even if it looks really bleak right now hahaha "orz. Thanks again, guys

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...but this time, it's by a pretty big phone company in China. On the case. WTF. Am I to put big-ass watermarks on everything now? I don't even know what to do D;

I only found out cause my dad was browsing around large companies to get a phone for my mom.

Dx Dx Dx wtffffffffffffffffffffffff i don't want to deal with this, fuck. Is this going to be an annual thing now? Cause from what i remember, the last time someone sold my work w/o my permission was also some time in july, just last year. ffffff "orz.

urgh, let me see if I can't work this out when I go back to China. I wanna sue their ass off, especially cause they're a pretty big company D:< but i don't even know where to start or have the money . plus the legal system is different in China so I don't even know omg fffffuck >A<;;!!

I can't believe this is already the 10th one! hahaha there's still at least 100-200 more deviations in line though xDD. Please be patient if you're in line :3. Thanks!

It takes me a while to put these together, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys! Faving this journal might help

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!

It takes me a while to put these together, so if you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys! Faving this journal might help

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (I still have a lot to go through and it adds up every time i put up a feature journal), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!

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Thanks for looking . If you want to be featured, there should be an older journal that will show you the way. You also have to be one of my watchers to be featured (thus the title xD)

note: If you commented on my other journal to be featured, please take a look at everyone else's work too. After all, it's only fair that way and if you don't, it's just a little selfish and your conscience will bug you . So yah, share the love, guys! Faving this journal might help

These are ordered first come first serve style; I will be showing around 50 pieces at one time (i have around 600 comments now @__@ ), and be featuring once a week as to not clog up your message boxes. It'll probably take ....a few months, so please be patient!